The brand new features include transliteration support – allowing people to type Urdu on and English keyboard, glide typing, and word completion suggestions. The prototypes that have been rolled out contain support of Urdu in Arabic script, Punjabi in both Gurmukhi and Arabic script, Sindhi in Devanagari and Arabic scripts, & Kashmiri in both Devanagari and Arabic scripts.Īlso Read: First Ever Voice-Based Navigation Software in Urdu – TPL Maps And NUST Behind The Wheel THE GBOARD URDU SUPPORT The Gboard, available for download at the google playstore, has recently seen an expansion in language support of 22 Indic languages and various scripts. Speaking purely numbers, 50% of the current web content available worldwide is in English while only 15% of current world population understands English at a level to find the content of any use.

Google’s stance on creating a faster, fluid, and more versatile internet has seen it step into new and upcoming markets like Indonesia where e-commerce is currently on the rise. Google has ensured that through its massive research and development on the feature, the future webpages will be able to seamlessly switch between languages. The translate feature has now expanded to almost hundred languages including diverse and lesser spoken languages including Zulu. The complex language translation algorithm now boasts new arsenal in the form of Indonesian, Gujarati, and Punjabi among others.Īlso Read: ICANN Empowers Internet Registry in Native Language – Urdu Domain Names Possible Now Google’s ‘translate’ feature has been a revelation ever since it became mainstream and is currently being used by more than 150 million pages every day for translations worldwide. The tech giant has added further languages to Google translator along with having complete support and new features for Urdu on Gboard. In a bid to continue providing better language support to end-users, Google has further enhanced its already impressive language capability.

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